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America's Funniest Comedians: Volume 1 (2007)

5.4/10
Starring: Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, Rosie O'Donnell

To experience the finest in standup comedy, you could go to a comedy club. But now you can enjoy the same laughs from some of the biggest names in Ame... Read more

Empires: The Medici - Godfathers of the Renaissance (2003)

8.8/10
Starring: Narrated by, Massimo Marinoni

Part of the ground-breaking 'Empires' series from PBS, this set features all four episodes on the Medici family, hailing from a small Italian communti... Read more

Samurai Pirate (1963)

Director: Senkichi Taniguchi
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Tadao Nakamaru, Mie Hama, Kumi Mizuno, Ichiro Arishima

In this Japanese adventure, a brave sailor (Toshiro Mifune) called Sinbad (in the English version) is shipwrecked in a strange part of the world and f... Read more

Troma Triple: Blades (1989) / Blood Hook (1987) / Zombie Island Massacre (1984)

Director: Jim Mallon, Thomas R. Rondinella, John N. Carter
Starring: William Towner, Robert North, Victoria Scott, Mark Jacobs, Lisa Todd, Patrick Da...

A gory Troma triple-bill of B-horrors. 'Blades' - People are getting mown down - literally- at the Tall Grass Country Club, where a pro-Am tournament... Read more

Dragnet: Volume 3 (1954)

5.9/10
Starring: Jack Webb

Volume 3 of the most successful police series in the history of television includes 3 classic 1954 episodes - 'the Big Producer', 'The Big Crime' and... Read more

Leonard Cohen: Under Review 1934 - 1977 (2006)

6.8/10
Starring: Leonard Cohen

The music and poetry of famed Canadian folk/rock performer Leonard Cohen is the focus of this outstanding documentary that provides a critical analysi... Read more

A Time To Remember: New Zealand Edition (2007)

6.5/10

From 1929 the Fox Movietone and Cinesound newsreels played in Cinemas across the country. They immortalised the famous and the infamous, the eccentric... Read more

Gorilla ( aka Nabonga ) (1944)

6.7/10
Director: Sam Newfield
Starring: Julie London, Larry 'Buster' Crabbe

In this campy jungle adventure, a gorilla named Nabonga warms up to a teenage girl whose plane, which was also carrying a bundle of embezzled cash, cr... Read more

Dalziel and Pascoe: Series 1 (1996)

7.4/10
Starring: Warren Clarke, Colin Buchanan, David Royle, Susannah Corbett

Warren Clarke and Colin Buchanan are the eponymous mismatched detectives from this hugely popluar BBC series that began in 1996 and continued to run u... Read more

Tarzan and the Green Goddess (1938)

5.1/10
Director: Edward Kull, Wilbur McGaugh
Starring: Herman Brix, Ula Holt, Frank Baker

In this classic Tarzan adventure, culled from 1935's 'The New Adventures of Tarzan' serial, Tarzan (Herman Brix) and his allies are in Guatemala, wher... Read more

Keystone Comedies: Vol 1 (1915)

Director: Mack Sennett
Starring: Mabel Normand, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

The Keystone Comedies are collection of silent film shorts produced by the legendary Mack Sennett. Staring Rosco 'Fatty' Arbuckle and Mabel Normand fe... Read more

Casper & Felix (1949)

Starring: Casper, Felix

Casper the friendly Ghost first appeared in 1945, leaving the haunted house to go out and make friends. Meantime, Felix the Cat had become a hugely po... Read more

The Great New Wonderful (2005)

5.8/10
Director: Danny Leiner
Starring: Olympia Dukakis, Jim Gaffigan, Judy Greer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Thomas McCarthy, N...

A rich drama with comic elements, set in New York a year after 9/11, tracing the aftershocks of that event on the lives of five disparate people. Com... Read more

The Venture Bros: Season 1 (2003)

8.5/10
Starring: Voices Of, James Urbaniak, Patrick Warburton, Michael Sinterniklass, Christopher...

Adult Swim strikes again with the warped adventures of a one-time boy genius who is now a washed-up, middle-aged scientist. Dr 'Rusty' Venture has tw... Read more

Men Behaving Badly: Series 1 (1991)

7.7/10
Starring: Martin Clunes, Harry Enfield, Leslie Ash, Caroline Quentin

The entire first series of this classic comedy of rudeness is presented in this hilarious collection. The initial series features the character of Der... Read more

Men Behaving Badly: Series 5 (1996)

6.4/10
Starring: Neil Morrissey, Martin Clunes, Leslie Ash, Caroline Quentin

This collection features seven hilarious episodes of 'Men Behaving Badly'. Episodes include: 'Hair', 'The Good Pub Guide', 'Cowardice', 'Your Mate V'.... Read more

The Invisible Man: Series 1 (1958)

7.7/10
Starring: Lisa Daniely, Voice Of, Tim Turner, Deborah Watling, Ernest Clark

Dr Peter Brady is a British scientist experimenting with invisibility when he himself becomes invisible. As he searches for an antidote, he also work... Read more

Safe Men (1998)

6/10
Director: John Hamburg
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Mark Ruffalo, Steve Zahn, Josh Pais, Paul Giamatti

Directed by John Hamburg this oddball comedy stars Steve Zahn and Sam Rockwell as two would-be musicians, who find themselves breaking into the burgla... Read more

Ice (Marcus Lush) (2007)

7/10
Starring: Marcus Lush

Marcus Lush braves the sub-zero temperatures of Antarctica to present this entertaining and informative look at the frozen continent. During the five... Read more

28 Weeks Later (2007)

7/10
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Amanda Walker, Harold Perrineau, Shah...

The sequel to Danny Boyle's '28 Days Later' is directed by Jaun Carlos Fresnadilo ('Intacto'), and takes place six months after the first film, with a... Read more

Berserk: The Series (1997)

8.5/10
Director: Naohito Takahashi

Gattsu, known as the Black Swordsman, seeks sanctuary from the demonic forces that pursue him and his woman, and also vengeance against the man who br... Read more

The Architect (2006)

5.6/10
Director: Matt Tauber
Starring: Anthony LaPaglia, Viola Davis, Isabella Rossellini, Hayden Panettiere, Sebastian...

Anthony LaPaglia plays architect Leo Waters, living an outwardly perfect life in the suburbs, while on the East Side of Chicago the residents in one o... Read more

The Last Mimzy (2007)

6.3/10
Director: Robert Shaye
Starring: Chris O'Neill, Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, Joely Richardson, Timothy Hutton, Rainn Wils...

A young brother and sister discover a mysterious box of artifacts while holidaying with their family and soon realise the contents are quite out of th... Read more

Jump (2007)

5.4/10
Director: Joshua Sinclair
Starring: Ben Silverstone, Patrick Swayze, Martine McCutcheon, Heinz Hoenig, Sybil Danning...

Phillippe Halsman was one of the most famous celebrity photographers of the 1950s, well-known for making his subjects literally jump for the camera; b... Read more

Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos (2006)

7.3/10
Director: John Dower, Paul Crowder
Starring: Narrated by, Matt Dillon

In 1977, for one brief shining moment, the international football fraternity were all focused on a newly-created team in New York - the Cosmos. Media... Read more

Song of the Thin Man (1947)

7.1/10
Director: Edward Buzzell
Starring: Gloria Grahame, Myrna Loy, William Powell, Keenan Wynn, Dean Stockwell, Patricia...

In the sixth and final film of the series, Nick and Nora play a rousing rendition of 'Murder Musicale' when the homicide of a jazz bandleader leads th... Read more

Edge of Outside: The Story of the Independent Filmmaking Movement (2006)

6.8/10
Starring: Robert Townsend, Edward Burns, Seymour Cassel, Peter Bogdanovich, Erich Von Stro...

Exploring independent filmmakers from the early silent days of Buster Keaton and DW Griffith, to modern outsiders like Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorses... Read more

The Hitchhiker: Volumes 1 and 2 (1983)

3.3/10
Starring: Gary Busey, Kirstie Alley, Peter Coyote, Sandra Bernhard, Helen Hunt, Margot Kid...

A collection of 17 epsiodes from HBO's long-running cult horror anthology series with such notable guest stars as Helen Hunt, Virginia Madsen, Willem... Read more

The Darwin Awards (2006)

6/10
Director: Finn Taylor
Starring: Joseph Fiennes, Winona Ryder, Tim Blake Nelson, Wilmer Valderrama, David Arquett...

Joseph Fiennes is gifted, yet unsuitable, homicide detective Michael Burrows, fired from his job due to his propensity to faint at the sight of blood.... Read more

The Singer (2006)

6.5/10
Director: Xavier Giannoli
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Cecile De France, Mathieu Amalric, Christine Citti, Patrick Pi...

Gereard Depardieu stars as a fading singing star whose libido is reignited by a young woman who moves to town. Marian (Cecile de France) is an outwar... Read more

Philip Johnson: Master Architect (2006)

7.2/10

This looks at the life's work of eccentric American architect Philip Johnson, who wielded great influence in American architectural design, playing a... Read more

Tales from Earthsea (2006)

6.5/10
Director: Goro Miyazaki

The son of legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki makes his directing debut with this adapatation of the third and fourth books in Ursula K. LeGuin's belov... Read more

Exiled (2006)

7.3/10
Director: Johnnie To
Starring: Anthony Wong, Francis Ng, Simon Yam, Nick Cheung, Richie Jen, Roy Cheung, Ka Tun...

A Hong Kong gangster film that feels more like a Sergio Leone western with its lush, languid pace and ironically comic touches. Wo (Nick Cheung) has... Read more

The Ballad of Big Al (2001)

8.1/10

In 1991 an amazing fossilized skeleton was uncovered in Wyoming in the U.S.A. Upon examination it was determined that this was the skeleton of a male... Read more

Angel-A (2005)

7.1/10
Director: Luc Besson
Starring: Jamel Debbouze, Rie Rasmussen, Gilbert Melki, Serge Riaboukine, Akim Chir

Luc Besson directs this uncharacteristically sparse fantasy in which a forlorn and deeply in debt Andre (Jamel Debbouze), decides to hurl himself into... Read more

Ever Decreasing Circles: Series 1 (1984)

7.3/10
Starring: Richard Briers, Penelope Wilton, Peter Egan

From the writers of 'The Good Life' this comedy-drama also starred Richard Briers, this time as a middle-aged obsessive-compulsive deeply involved in... Read more

The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970)

7.2/10
Director: Kevin Billington
Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Peter Cook, Ronnie Corbett, Harold Pinter, Arthur L...

Ambitious, single-minded and ruthless: Michael Rimmer (Peter Cook) has all the necessary qualities to succeed in business. Setting his sights on a sma... Read more

Kings and Queen (2004)

Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Starring: Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Catherine Deneuve

Art gallery owner Nora (Emmanuelle Devos) and her ex-lover Ismael (Mathieu Amalric) live parallel lives of personal struggle, as Nora attempts to care... Read more

Bob Marley: Spiritual Journey (2003)

7.5/10
Starring: Bob Marley

This intimate look at the late reggae great offers insightful interviews, exciting concert footage and classic musical numbers to paint a complete por... Read more

Bullrider (2004)

4/10
Director: Josh Aronson

Professional bull-riding is the fastest growing sport in the USA today. Over 100 million people follow the sport world-wide. Directed by Academy Award... Read more

Monkey: Season 1, Episodes 14-26 (1979)

8.7/10
Director: Yusuke Watanabe
Starring: Masako Natsume, Masaaki Sakai, Toshiyuki Nishida, Shiro Kishibe

Season one of this surreal cult series continues with 12 more classic Kung Fu adventures. Episodes include: 'Catfish, Saint And The Shape-Changer', 'M... Read more

Monkey: Season 2, Episodes 27-39 (1979)

8.7/10
Director: Yusuke Watanabe
Starring: Masaaki Sakai, Masako Natsume, Tonpei Hidari, Shiro Kishibe

Recount the exploits of the resourceful, brave and humourous Monkey, as he continues to escort Tripitaka, the pig monster Pigsy and the water monster... Read more

Monkey: Season 2, Episodes 40-52 (1980)

8.7/10
Director: Yusuke Watanabe
Starring: Masaaki Sakai, Masako Natsume, Tonpei Hidari, Shiro Kishibe

Season two of this classic cult series continues with 12 more surreal Kung Fu adventures featuring Monkey, Horse, Pigsy and Tripitaka. Episodes inclu... Read more

We Are Traffic! (1999) / Return of the Scorcher (1992)

Director: Ted White

This wonderful compendium of the films of Ted White, presents both the successes and failures of the Critical Mass bicycle phenomenon, chronicling the... Read more

Manderlay (2005)

7.4/10
Director: Lars von Trier
Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard, Willem Dafoe, Isaach De Bankole, Danny Glover, Lauren Bacal...

The second in Lars von Trier's 'American' trilogy, after 'Dogville' is shot in the same theatrical style, and features Bryce Dallas Howard in the Nico... Read more

Roar: The Complete Series (1997)

6.3/10
Starring: Heath Ledger, John Saint Ryan, Lisa Zane, Vera Farmiga, Sebastian Roche

The role that lead Hollywood to Heath Ledger's door was that of young Irish chieftain, Conor, battling the evil Roman Queen and her wizard, Longinus.... Read more

Happily N'Ever After (2006)

4.5/10
Director: Paul J. Bolger
Starring: Voices Of, George Carlin, Andy Dick, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr, S...

Once upon a time will n'ever be the same again. When Fairy Tale Land's resident wizard (George Carlin) takes a vacation, his bumbling assistants can't... Read more

The Best of Country Calendar 2006 (2007)

From the wilds of the East Coast, the remoteness of the Uruweras, the solitude of a fishing trawler, to the sophistication of a Hawkes Bay property, N... Read more

The Brady Bunch Movie / A Very Brady Sequel / The Brady Bunch in the White House (1995)

Director: Arlene Sanford, Betty Thomas, Neal Israel
Starring: Shelley Long, Gary Cole, Tim Matheson, Michael McKean

'Brady Bunch Movie' (1995) - In this parody of the popular 70s TV Sitcom, the Bradys are trapped in a kind of 70s time warp, unaware that values and m... Read more

Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda: Volume 2 (2000)

Starring: Kevin Sorbo, Lisa Valentine

Episodes 4 and 5 from Season One are 'D Minus Zero' in which the crew of the Andromeda is attacked by the Restorers; and 'Double Helix' finds the crew... Read more

9 Dead Gay Guys (2002)

6.3/10
Director: Lab Ky Mo
Starring: Glen Mulhern, Brendan Mackey, Steven Berkoff, Michael Praed, Vas Blackwood

An over-the-top crime caper comedy about two Irish lads who attempt to supplement their giros by becoming rent boys in London's upmarket gay community... Read more

Paris, Je T'aime (2006)

7.3/10
Director: Alexander Payne, Alfonso Cuaron, Gurinder Chadha, Gus Van Sant, Joel Coen, Oliver Schmitz, Olivier Assayas, Tom Tykwer, Walter Salles, Wes Craven, Sylvain Chomet, etc , Gerard Depardieu
Starring: Leila Bekhti, Juliette Binoche, Steve Buscemi, Sergio Castellitto, Willem Dafoe,...

A grand anthology of love letters to the city of romance from a stunningly varied array of international directors from the Coen Brothers to Alfonso C... Read more

Attack the Gas Station (1999)

7.1/10
Director: Sang-Jin Kim
Starring: Sung-jae Lee, Oh-seong Yu, Seong-jin Kang, Ji-tae Yu, Yeong-gyu Park, Jun Jeong,...

An imaginative and stylish Korean comedy, satirising the prolific Asian crime genre and South Korea's social turmoil. Four bored youths decide to rob... Read more

Partition (2007)

7/10
Director: Vic Sarin
Starring: Jimi Mistry, Kristin Kreuk, Neve Campbell, Irfan Khan, Madhur Jaffrey, John Ligh...

Set during the tumultuous post-colonial era in India in 1949, when it was hastily divided into India and the new muslim country of Pakistan. Sikh far... Read more

Five (2007)

3.4/10
Director: Amit Tripuraneni
Starring: Richard Thompson, Anita Crisnel, Marjan Gorgani, Andy Sophocleous, Amit Tripuran...

A supernatural thriller from kiwi director Amit Tripuraneni who also stars as one of five friends on their last big adventure before their lives take... Read more

Princess of Thieves (2001)

5.8/10
Starring: Keira Knightley, Malcolm McDowell, Stuart Wilson, Jonathan Hyde, Stephen Moyer,...

Robin Hood's daughter takes up his longbow after he is captured by Prince John. A young Keira Knightley plays Gwyn determined to bring the late King... Read more

Blue Murder (1995)

8.6/10
Director: Michael Jenkins
Starring: Richard Roxburgh, Tony Martin, Steve Bastoni, Gary Day, Peter Phelps, Alex Dimit...

Based on real events this shockingly confronting mini-series exposed the corrupt practises of Detective Roger Rogerson, the golden boy of Sydney's pol... Read more

Spooks: Series 3 (2005)

6/10
Director: Various
Starring: Matthew Macfadyen, Kelley Hawes, David Oyelowo, Peter Firth, Rupert Penry-Jones

Season three of 'Spooks' begins where two left-off at a cliffhanger ending, right in the middle of the action! One agent (long doubted by his partners... Read more

Poirot: Taken at the Flood (2005)

8.6/10
Director: Andy Wilson
Starring: Celia Imrie, David Suchet, Tim Pigott-Smith, Patrick Baladi, Elliot Cowan

In this addition to the popular series based on the novels by Agatha Christie, the sudden death of wealthy Gordon Cloade puts his greedy family in qui... Read more

Back in the USSR (1991)

4.9/10
Director: Deran Sarafian
Starring: Frank Whaley, Roman Polanski, Natalya Negoda

A young American tourist in Moscow becomes involved in the Russian underworld when he's framed for murder. Frank Whaley, Natalya Negoda and Roman Pola... Read more

Merlin's Apprentice (2006)

5.4/10
Director: David Wu
Starring: Sam Neill, John Reardon, Miranda Richardson, Christopher Jacot, Meghan Ory, Dunc...

Sequel to the acclaimed 1998 mini-series, 'Merlin' with Sam Neill reprising his role as Camelot's wizard. Not strictly following on from the first,... Read more

Subject Two (2006)

5.5/10
Director: Philip Chidel
Starring: Philip Chidel, Christian Oliver, Courtney Mace, Dean Stapleton

Dr Franklin Vick believes he may have found the cure for death itself. Retreating to his remote mountain cabin, he takes with him a troubled medical... Read more

A Few Days in September (2006)

5.4/10
Director: Santiago Amigorena
Starring: Juliette Binoche, John Turturro, Sara Forestier, Tom Riley, Nick Nolte

An international tale of intrigue with more than a hint of satire has Juliette Binoche as a French agent on the trail of a missing CIA operative with... Read more

Urban Cowboy (1980)

6.3/10
Director: James Bridges
Starring: John Travolta, Debra Winger

Moving from his rural Texas home to take an oil refinery job near Houston, young hardhat John Travolta begins hanging out at famed honky tonk nightclu... Read more

The New Twilight Zone: Season 1 (1985)

Director: Martha Coolidge, Peter Medak, Rick Friedberg, Robert Downey, Tommy Lee Wallace, Wes Craven, William Friedkin, etc
Starring: Bruce Willis, Terry O'Quinn, Annie Potts, Arliss Howard, Dee Wallace, James Crom...

Making its television debut in 1989, the New Twilight Zone followed the same format as its ground-breaking predecessor (minus Rod Serling), with stori... Read more

Bertie and Elizabeth (2002)

7.2/10
Director: Giles Foster
Starring: Eileen Atkins, Juliet Aubrey, Alan Bates, Elisabeth Dermot Walsh, Robert Hardy

James Wilby and Juliet Aubrey star in the intimate portrayal of the endearing love affair between the young Queen Mother Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and Albe... Read more

Girls on Top: Series 1 and 2 (1985)

5.3/10
Director: Ed Bye, Paul Jackson
Starring: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Tracey Ullman, Ruby Wax, Joan Greenwood

Featuring the budding comedic talents of Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Ruby Wax and Tracey Ullman who play four diverse women sharing a London flat... Read more

A World Without Thieves (2004)

7.3/10
Director: Feng Xiaogang
Starring: Andy Lau, Rene Liu, Ge You, Baoqiang Wang, Bingbing Li

Bo (Andy Lau) and Li (Rene Liu) play a pair of expert grifters who have just amassed a large wad of cash, prompting Li to say she wants out of the biz... Read more

Ugly Betty: Season 1 (2006)

6.6/10
Starring: America Ferrera, Christopher Gorham, Eric Mabius, Alan Dale, Tony Plana, Ana Ort...

Young actress America Ferrara won an Emmy for her role as Betty Suarez, an overweight, ugly duckling who gets a job in the high-flying world of fashio... Read more

The Muppet Show: Season 2 (1977)

8.4/10
Starring: Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Don Knotts, Dom DeLuise, George Burns,...

This second season of the hit variety show has all the familiar skits, 'Pigs in Space', 'Swedish Chef', 'Veterinarian's Hospital' combined with anothe... Read more

Star Trek Fan Collective: Captain's Log (2001)

Starring: William Shatner, Patrick Stewart, Avery Brooks, Kate Mulgrew, Scott Bakula

While fans once again voted on-line for their all-time favourite episodes, two each for the five Star Trek Captains, this collection also contains, fo... Read more

Battlestar Galactica: Season 3 (2006)

7.9/10
Starring: Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Tricia Helfer, Mary McDonnell, Edward James Olmos, K...

Picking up where Season Two left off, the Cylons are ruling the majority of the surviving humans after they attempted to set up on the planet of New C... Read more

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007)

Director: Dennis Dugan
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Jessica Biel, Dan Aykroyd, Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi...

Chuck and Larry (Adam Sandler and Kevin James) are two New York City firemen who have been fast friends for years. Strictly friends. But when widowe... Read more

Victoria Wood - Live at the Albert Hall (2001)

After two decades at the top of her profession, Victoria Wood is one of a small handful of British comedians capable of filling the country's largest... Read more

The Island of Dr Moreau (1977)

5.9/10
Director: Don Taylor
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport, Richard Basehart, Barbara Carrera

Burt Lancaster stars in the title role as the deranged scientist, who uses his remote island as a base for experiments in creating half-human, half-an... Read more

Missing in Action (1984)

5.4/10
Director: Joseph Zito
Starring: Chuck Norris, M Emmet Walsh

One of a string of Rambo-esque films dashed off in the '80s. Action ace Chuck Norris stars as a former Vietnam War P.O.W. who returns to Southeast Asi... Read more

Shirley Temple: Little Darling Pack (1934)

6.2/10
Director: Alexander Hall, Henry Hathaway
Starring: Carole Lombard, Gary Cooper, Shirley Temple

This double bill of early Shirley faves opens with the first film version of Damon Runyon's "Little Miss Marker" (1934), with Temple as the adorable t... Read more

The Very Best of Ronnie Barker (2008)

Starring: Bernard Cribbins, Eric Sykes, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett

In this hilarious programme we revisit some of Ronnie Barker's funniest moments from an illustrious career that has made him one of Britain's best lov... Read more

Autumn Hearts (2007)

Director: Paolo Barzman
Starring: Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer, Susan Sarandon, Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis

Thirty-five years after their internment at the hands of the Nazis, three friends reunite. Melanie (Susan Sarandon) is in an unsatisfying marriage to... Read more

Peep and the Big Wide World: The Windy Day (2004)

7.4/10
Starring: Joan Cusack

Join Peep, Chirp and Quack - three wonderfully inquisitive friends who explore their world. They live in a park (they are of course a chick, a duck an... Read more

Midsomer Murders: Series 5 (2002)

7.8/10
Director: Sarah Hellings, David Tucker, Peter Smith
Starring: Angela Thorne, Anton Rogers, Graham Crowden, Wendy Craig, John Nettles, Gwen Tay...

Barnaby and Troy investigate five more cases in their fifth season as the long arm of the law in the 'deadliest county in England'. 'Tainted Fruit': T... Read more

The Ambulance (1990)

5.9/10
Director: Larry Cohen
Starring: Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Megan Gallagher, Red Buttons, Janine Turner, Eri...

This paranoid thriller begins as Eric Roberts' girlfriend (Janine Turner) is taken away in an ambulance and he can't find her. She's been taken prison... Read more

Shootout! (2005)

7.9/10

Experience the danger of gun battle up close in this riveting, innovative documentary series from The History Channel. Using 3-D animation, aerial map... Read more

Body / Antibody (2007)

5.9/10
Director: Kerry Douglas Dye, Jordan Hoffman
Starring: Robert Gomes, Leslie Kendall Dye, Frank Deal, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Antony Hago...

Kip Polyard suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder and hasn't left his apartment in 10 months; but now the seductive Celine has moved in next door... Read more

Match Point ( Blu-ray ) (2005)

7.6/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Brian Cox, Ewen Bremner, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Penelope Wilton, Scarlett Johanss...

In his first film set in the UK, Woody Allen's slick romantic thriller follows an opportunistic tennis coach (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) who ingratiates hi... Read more

Solstice (2008)

5.4/10
Director: Daniel Myrick
Starring: Elisabeth Harnois, Shawn Ashmore, Tyler Hoechlin, Amanda Seyfried, Matt O'Leary,...

A group of high school students come together for their final fling before college, celebrating the summer solstice at a lake house. It's not long be... Read more

The Shield: Season 5 (2006)

8.7/10
Director: D J Caruso, Guy Ferland, Stephen Kay, Phillip Atwell, Michael Chiklis, Dean White, Gwyneth Horder-Payton
Starring: Michael Chiklis, Catherine Dent, Walton Goggins, Michael Jace, Kenneth Johnson,...

The tension mounts with Vic and his crew squarely in the sights of Internal Affairs Officer Jon Kavanaugh (Forest Whitaker). Determined to the point o... Read more

Role Models (2009)

6.9/10
Director: David Wain
Starring: Paul Rudd, Seann William Scott, Jane Lynch, Elizabeth Banks, Christopher Mintz-P...

Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott star as two salesmen sentenced to community service at a big-brother mentorship centre. The pair of boys-in-men's cl... Read more

The Spirit ( Blu-ray ) (2008)

4.8/10
Director: Frank Miller
Starring: Samuel L Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Gabriel Macht, Jaime King, Eva Mendes, Sta...

A good-guy cop is killed in the line of duty and comes back to life as shadowy crimefighter 'The Spirit', now pitted against 'The Octopus' whose main... Read more

The Diary of Anne Frank (2008)

6.5/10
Director: Jon Jones
Starring: Iain Glen, Tamsin Greig, Ellie Kendrick, Kate Ashfield

This five-part BBC drama presents an intimate portrayal of the tragically short life of Anne Frank and her family. Anne's diary was first published ov... Read more

Beauty and the Beast: Season 1 (1987)

7.1/10
Starring: Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, Edward Albert, Roy Dotrice

'Beauty and the Beast' features the adventures and romance between Vincent (Ron Perlman), a mythic, noble man-beast, and Catherine (Linda Hamilton), a... Read more

The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

6.8/10
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, Joyce Jameson, Joe E...

Waldo Trumbull (Vincent Price) is running his father-in-law's (Boris Karloff) funeral home business...straight into the ground! Hounded by his landlor... Read more

Angel Face (1952)

7.3/10
Director: Otto Preminger
Starring: Barbara O'Neil, Herbert Marshall, Jean Simmons, Leon Ames, Robert Mitchum

This noir gem stars Robert Mitchum as an ambulance driver who catches the eye of a wealthy femme fatale (Jean Simmons). Hired as a chauffeur for Simmo... Read more

Night Court: Season 1 (1984)

7.7/10
Starring: Harry Anderson, John Larroquette, Richard Moll, Paula Kelly, Karen Austin

In the mid-eighties, a different kind of sitcom took audiences by surprise. 'Night Court' offered viewers a kooky, fun, and feel good approach to come... Read more

On Eagle's Wing (2006)

This joyous stage spectacular is a musical, a dance show and an oratorio all rolled into one. The power of the pipes, drums and explosive dance routin... Read more

The Comedians of Comedy (2007)

7.3/10
Starring: Sarah Silverman, Doug Benson, Patton Oswalt, Andy Kindler, David Cross

14 of today's top comics get together at the infamous Troubadour club in L.A. for a night of comedic anarchy! See Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman, Davi... Read more

Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 1, Volume 1 (Remastered) (1966)

8/10
Starring: DeForest Kelley, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner

Space. The final frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain... Read more

Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 2, Volume 1 (Remastered) (1967)

8/10
Starring: DeForest Kelley, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner

Space. The final frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain... Read more

Salem's Lot (2004)

6.2/10
Director: Mikael Salomon
Starring: Andre Braugher, Donald Sutherland, James Cromwell, Rob Lowe, Rutger Hauer, Saman...

Welcome to Jerusalem's Lot - Salem's Lot, as locals call it. Population: 1319. And growing eerier by the moment. Because an ominous outsider has moved... Read more

Bride Wars (2009)

5.5/10
Director: Gary Winick
Starring: Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Bryan Greenberg, Candice Bergen, Chris Pratt, Steve...

Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway play best buds whose friendship is put to the test when a clerical error sees their dream weddings (both at New York's P... Read more

Pride and Glory (2008)

6.7/10
Director: Gavin O'Connor
Starring: Colin Farrell, Edward Norton, Jon Voight, Noah Emmerich, Jennifer Ehle, John Ort...

Edward Norton plays an honest cop, assigned to investigate the precinct run by his potentially corrupt older brother. Director Gavin O'Connor co-wrote... Read more

Gran Torino (2008)

8.1/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Ahney Her, Christopher Carley, Brian Haley, Geraldine...

Clint Eastwood directs himself as Walt Kowalski, a racist Korean War veteran living in a crime-ridden area of Detroit. When a troubled local teen atte... Read more

The Private Life of a Masterpiece: Impressionism and the Post-Impressionists (2003)

8.7/10

A lively dance, a vase of brilliant yellow flowers and an afternoon on the banks of the Seine provide the inspiration for these three masterpieces fro... Read more

Not Going Out: Series 1 (2006)

7.8/10
Director: Alex Hardcastle
Starring: Lee Mack, Tim Vine, Miranda Hart, Megan Dodds

Lee is an unmotivated, thirty-something flatting in London with Kate, an attractive and successful American on whom he has a crush. Unfortunately, not... Read more

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 1 & 2 (2005)

8.8/10
Starring: Charlie Day, Kaitlin Olson, Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Danny DeVito

Four self-centred friends run an Irish pub together in the City of Brotherly Love. Dennis, self-described ladies' man and spoilt brat, believes in rem... Read more

Tales of the Riverbank (2008)

5.2/10
Director: John Henderson
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Stephen Fry, Steve Coogan, Ardal O'Hanlon, Peter Serafinowicz, Mi...

Hammy Hamster, Roderick Rat and GP Guinea Pig are caught in a violent storm and embark on an epic journey in search of their lost homes. Their journey... Read more

By the Sword Divided: Series 1 (1983)

7.6/10
Director: Henry Herbert, Michael Custance, Brian Farnham, Diarmuid Lawrence
Starring: Julian Glover, Andrew MacLachlan, Rob Edwards, Jeremy Clyde, Tim Bentinck, Lucy...

Produced by the BBC, this epic historical drama series is set during the English Civil War and follows the changing loyalties and wrenching conflict w... Read more

Wanda Sykes: Sick and Tired (2006)

7.3/10
Director: Michael Drumm
Starring: Wanda Sykes

Voted one of Entertainment Weekly's 25 Funniest People in America, the sardonic wit of Wanda Sykes will be familiar to viewers of 'Curb Your Enthusias... Read more

The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (2008)

Director: Murray Grigor

A sumptuous and comprehensive survey of Frank Lloyd Wright's life and career, from his apprenticeship with Louis Sullivan in Chicago to his final days... Read more

The Story of India (2007)

8.6/10
Starring: Michael Wood

A six-part BBC series with engaging historian Michael Wood taking a fascinating look at the 10,000-year history of the Indian sub-continent. A colourf... Read more

Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness (2000)

8.3/10
Starring: Alain De Botton

Popular British philosopher Alain de Botton investigates the pursuit of happiness in this six-part series, with each episode exploring the ideas and t... Read more

Sports Night: Season 1 (1998)

8.3/10
Director: Various
Starring: Felicity Huffman, Josh Charles, Robert Guillaume, Peter Krause, Joshua Malina, S...

Finally available, the first ever series from Aaron Sorkin (creator of 'The West Wing' and 'Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip') sees his intelligent, fast... Read more

Woman on the Run (1950)

7.4/10
Director: Norman Foster
Starring: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith, Ross Elliot

Top-notch crime story about an artist who goes into hiding after witnessing a mob murder. His seemingly uncaring wife decides to help police and an ad... Read more

A Taste of Honey (1961)

7.6/10
Director: Tony Richardson
Starring: Dora Bryan, Rita Tushingham, Robert Stephens, Murray Melvin

A lively tale of a pregnant Salford teenager, her mother, and her unlikely friendship with a gay man. Time has left its mark on many of the innovative... Read more

Slumdog Millionaire ( Blu-ray ) (2008)

8/10
Director: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan
Starring: Irfan Khan, Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Madhur Mittal, Freida Pinto

Danny Boyle's quirky and suspenseful romantic drama is set in the slums of Mumbai and riffs on the multi-cultural icon that is 'Who Wants to Be a Mill... Read more

The Last Drop (2005)

4.6/10
Director: Colin Teague
Starring: Billy Zane, Michael Madsen

A skilled team of special operatives track a hidden cache of Nazi gold that could fund an Allied victory before Christmas. With 35,000 U.S. troops beh... Read more

Sword of Xanten (2004)

Director: Uli Edel
Starring: Alicia Witt, Benno Furmann, Kristanna Loken

In a time lost to history, when the Gods still walked among us, they sent a warrior to reclaim the mystic gold that has plunged the world into endless... Read more

The Ice Runner (1993)

5.6/10
Director: Barry Samson
Starring: Victor Wong, Edward Albert

A U.S. spy stationed in the Soviet Union is betrayed by the CIA and sent to a prison camp. After assuming the identity of a dead thief he's transferre... Read more

An Audience With Victoria Wood (1988)

8.2/10
Starring: Victoria Wood

The incomparable Victoria Wood is the star of this special show that won two 1989 British Academy Film and Television Arts Awards. Before a celebrity... Read more

Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)

8.7/10
Director: Morris Barry
Starring: Patrick Troughton, Deborah Watling, Frazer Hines

The terror of the Cybermen is finally over - or is it? An expedition heads to Telos (their home planet) to discover what has happened to the deadly si... Read more

Lexx: Season 2 (1998)

7.4/10
Director: Various
Starring: Michael McManus, Xenia Seeberg, Brian Downey

A crew of outcasts from an evil empire bounce around a parallel universe in a stolen, organic spacecraft - the awesomely powerful Lexx. With bold orig... Read more

Up the Yangtze (2007)

7.5/10
Director: Yung Chang

In China, it is simply known as 'The River'. But the Yangtze (and all of the life that surrounds it), is undergoing a truly astonishing transformation... Read more

Bacon's Arena (2009)

7.9/10
Director: Adam Low

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century and for the first time we have a film biogra... Read more

Miss Austen Regrets (2008)

7.1/10
Director: Jeremy Lovering
Starring: Adrian Edmondson, Greta Scacchi, Imogen Poots, Olivier Williams

Approaching her fortieth birthday, Jane Austen (Olivia Williams) appears happily unmarried. When asked by her young niece Fanny (Imogen Poots) to help... Read more

The Shark Net (2003)

8.1/10
Director: Graeme Burfoot
Starring: Angie Milliken, Warren Mitchell, Dan Wyllie, Leeanna Walsman, Tim Draxl, William...

When Robert Drewe, aged six, moves with his family to Perth, he has every reason to expect a life of playful adventure. But divisions between his pare... Read more

Howards' Way: Series 1 (1985)

6.7/10
Director: Various
Starring: Tracey Childs, Edward Highmore, Dulcie Gray, Jan Harvey, Maurice Colbourne

Drama on the high seas! In a way. The Howards are an affluent English family with expensive hobbies and high aspirations, so when father Tom loses his... Read more

Le trou ( The Hole ) (1960)

8.5/10
Director: Jacques Becker
Starring: Marc Michel

Marc Michel plays a man awaiting trial for the attempted murder of his wife. He is transferred to another cell where his fellow prisoners are planning... Read more

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 3 (1989)

8.6/10
Starring: Brent Spiner, Denise Crosby, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Patrick Stewart, Mic...

Set in the 24th century and decades after the adventures of the original crew of the starship Enterprise, this series is the successor to the original... Read more

Changeling ( Blu-ray ) (2008)

7.8/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Colm Feore, John Malkovich, Michael Kelly, Amy Ryan

Based on a shocking true story, director Clint Eastwood's riveting drama stars Angelina Jolie as a single mother in 1928 Los Angeles whose son goes mi... Read more

Twister ( Blu-ray ) (1996)

6.3/10
Director: Jan De Bont
Starring: Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Helen Hunt, Jami Gertz, Philip Seymour Hoffman

In this adventure swirling with cliffhanging excitement and awesome special effects, Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton play scientists pursuing the most dest... Read more

Doubt (2008)

7.5/10
Director: John Patrick Shanley
Starring: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis

Outstanding performances highlight John Patrick Shanley's adaptation of his award-winning stage play. At a Bronx Catholic school, scandal and speculat... Read more

Bedtime Stories (2008)

6.1/10
Director: Adam Shankman
Starring: Adam Sandler, Courteney Cox, Guy Pearce, Jonathan Pryce, Keri Russell, Lucy Lawl...

Handyman Skeeter Bronson's life is changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to mysteriously come true. He attempts... Read more

Fun at the Funeral Parlour: The Complete Series (2001)

7.7/10
Director: Christine Gernon, Peter Boyd MacLean
Starring: Paul Whitehouse, Tony Way, Alex Lowe, Rhys Thomas

Aiming to do for Welsh undertakers what 'Father Ted' did for Irish priests, this series follows a family who try to get their business of the ground,... Read more

Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Season 1 (1998)

8.5/10
Starring: Wayne Brady, Brad Sherwood, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, Drew Carey, Greg Proops

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it just might be 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' - the series where gifted comics devise sketches, imperson... Read more

South Park: Season 6 (2002)

8.7/10
Director: Matt Stone, Trey Parker
Starring: Matt Stone, Trey Parker

In this season, Professor Chaos is back, Stan meets his future self, Cartman makes a memorable appearance on daytime televison, Bebe's newfound womanh... Read more

Mystery Science Theater 3000: 20th Anniversary Edition (2008)

8.5/10
Starring: Trace Beaulieu, Kevin Murphy, Michael J Nelson, Jim Mallon, Joel Hodgson

Running for eleven seasons, this cult TV comedy took an inspired idea - taking the mick out of old films - and made it a hit. A man and his robot side... Read more

Amadeus ( Blu-ray ) (1984)

8.3/10
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Elizabeth Berridge, F Murray Abraham, Jeffrey Jones, Simon Callow, Tom Hulce, Ch...

Winner of eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Actor and Director, this soaring, engrossing story of genius, jealousy and passion stars Tom H... Read more

Batman Beyond: Season 1 (1999)

8.1/10
Director: Bruce W Timm, Various
Starring: Voices Of, Will Friedle, Kevin Conroy, Lauren Tom, Stockard Channing

AKA 'Batman of the Future' in its original New Zealand release. The futuristic follow-up to the acclaimed 'Batman: The Animated Series' sees Bruce Way... Read more

Buzzy Bee and Friends (2009)

For more than 70 years, Buzzy Bee has held number one place as New Zealand's favourite toy - now Buzzy comes to life in this TVNZ series. Thirteen epi... Read more

Monty Python's Flying Circus: Michael Palin's Personal Best (2005)

8.9/10
Starring: Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jone...

Michael Palin's personal selection of the best sketches from the entire run of 'Monty Python's Flying Circus', including a never-seen-before retrospec... Read more

2012 - The Odyssey (2006)

4.9/10

In this thought provoking feature documentary, Sharron Rose travels across the United States speaking to the many experts on this fast approaching pro... Read more

Ghost Town (2008)

6.7/10
Director: David Koepp
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Tea Leoni, Ricky Gervais, Billy Campbell, Dana Ivey, Kristen Wiig

In the wake of a near-death experience, self-absorbed dentist Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) acquires the annoying ability to see the dead - turns out... Read more

JCVD (2008)

7.2/10
Director: Mabrouk El Mechri
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Francois Damiens, Zinedine Soualem

Jean-Claude Van Damme plays himself in this unique, existential heist thriller with a dark comic streak. Down and out, with only straight-to-DVD title... Read more

Against a Crooked Sky (1975)

5.4/10
Director: Earl Bellamy
Starring: Henry Wilcoxon, Richard Boone

A remake of John Ford's landmark western 'The Searchers'. Richard Boone appears in the John Wayne role, playing an ageing trapper obsessed with rescui... Read more

Cimarron Strip: The Beast That Walks Like a Man (1967)

7.5/10
Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Stuart Whitman

The Houstan clan wants to cross the river at the edge of the Cimarron Strip and establish their claim to Mocane Valley in land that hasn't been settle... Read more

The Premature Burial (1961)

Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Hazel Court, Heather Angel, Ray Milland, Richard Ney

Talk about a tortured artist! Oscar-winner Ray Milland is Guy, a medical student and painter whose obsessive fear of being buried alive compels him to... Read more

The Secret Life of Bees (2008)

7.3/10
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, Sophie Okonedo, Pau...

Southern Carolina, 1964. 14-year-old Lily (Dakota Fanning), haunted by the death of her mother, and unable to bear living with her emotionally distant... Read more

Charlie Bartlett (2007)

7/10
Director: Jon Poll
Starring: Anton Yelchin, Robert Downey Jr, Hope Davis, Kat Dennings, Mark Rendall, Dylan T...

High school hijinks as perpetually expelled private schoolboy, Charlie Bartlett, tries his luck in public school. At first he seems an easy target for... Read more

Appaloosa (2008)

6.7/10
Director: Ed Harris
Starring: Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renee Zellweger, Jeremy Irons, Timothy Spall, Lance...

After drifting into a troubled Western outpost and discovering the helpless locals are being terrorised by a ruthless rancher and his hired thugs, two... Read more